Pan

Norwegian Nobel Prize winner, Knut Hamsun, wrote his highly regarded novel, “Pan”, while living in Paris. Strongly influenced by Dostoyevsky, it is first a work of great beauty and simplicity that can be experienced on many levels. Commenting on his work in progress, Knut Hamsun said, "My new book will be beautiful; it takes place in Nordland, a quiet and red love story. There will be no polemics in it, just people under different skies." The novel continues to convey its seductive charm to readers more than a century after it was published in 1894, and although it has provoked many varied interpretations, it remains still…an enigma.